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Martin Powell Davies at the Lewisham demonstration against destructive school policies, photo Paul Mattsson
21 October 2009
Primary education: Report slams government policy
EVER SINCE New Labour was elected, they have sought to dictate to schools what to teach and even how to teach it. Policed by the threatening machinery of Ofsted inspections and league tables of SATs and GCSE results, schools have been bullied into following each new instruction imposed by ministers and Whitehall officials, writes Martin Powell-Davies, secretary, Lewisham NUT.
22 September 2009
Defend education: stop £2 billion spending cuts
ED BALLS' announcement of Labour's plans to impose £2 billion of cuts spells out the onslaught to be unleashed on teachers, writes Martin Powell-Davies, candidate for the NUT teachers' union vice-president post.
9 September 2009
IN A desperate move to revive Labour's failing private academies scheme, education secretary Ed Balls has announced that the government is dropping the £2 million sponsorship criteria...
8 July 2009
Education white paper: Teachers will have been shocked and appalled by New Labour's latest white paper. In it, Ed Balls, secretary of state for Children, Schools and Families, suggests that teachers should pass an MOT-style...
8 July 2009
First strike against Trust schools
Waltham Forest: On 2 July, teachers at Norlington Boys secondary school in Waltham Forest, East London went on strike - the first strike in the country against Trust status...
8 July 2009
Since May, NUT members in Tamworth have led a campaign against the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) proposals for schools in their area, writes Dylan Murphy, NUT rep, Honley High School Kirklees, personal capacity.
24 June 2009
'Sponsors' deserting academy schools
SIXTY OF the 85 privately sponsored academy schools that were financed under the original academies deal had not received the funds expected from their private sponsors, according to information in the House of Commons Library which was reported by Private Eye magazine, writes Roger Shrives.
Do not close our schools: Medway schools protest, photo Jacqui Berry
20 May 2009
Education feature: OVER 200 parents and children held a very loud, colourful protest outside Medway council cabinet meeting against the closure of three local schools, St John's Infants, Ridge Meadow Primary and St Peter's Infants, writes Jacqui Berry and Dave Berrie.
13 May 2009
Save our schools Weston Favell, Northampton
AT A public meeting in Weston Favell school, Northampton, 120 parents, students, staff and trade unionists discussed the proposal to change the state comprehensive into an academy...
13 May 2009
LABOUR PROMOTES academies as a solution to 'failing' comprehensive schools. Private sponsors, rich business people or corporations, religious charities or even rival private schools, can put in up to...
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